Rowland Croucher
The Road to burnout
The road to burnout Everyone’s rushing around, everyone seems to be complaining about working too hard. No surprises then that more people are saying they’re feeling burnt out. It applies to all lines of work: bankers, IT workers, advertisers, management consultants, lawyers, social workers, teachers. Even journalists. But what exactly causes burnout? Some interesting insights […]
Pakistan: Musharraf’s manoeuvring
——————————————————– PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF’S MANOEUVRING – could see persecution escalate through 2007 ——————————————————– Pakistan’s presidential election is due in late 2007 and national and provincial elections will be held soon after. As such, 2007 will be a year for election campaigning and maneuvering. In mid-2002 Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup on 1999, announced […]
Baptist Church Membership
From a pastor-friend: Rowland posed this hypothetical: yours is the only appropriate Christian community in town, and a retired Salvo couple wants to be in full membership. There’s no Quaker or S/Army church for a hundred miles. They love communion, but they believe they’re already baptized ‘in the Spirit’ and don’t need a further baptism […]
Liberal bishops face evangelical backlash
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:14am GMT 10/12/2006 Liberal bishops who support homosexual priests are to be barred from entering some churches and money intended for Anglican coffers will be withheld. In a dramatic escalation in the Church of England’s civil war over homosexual clergy, scores of evangelical churches will break their historic […]
12 December 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: CHRISTIANS FAST AFTER THREATS TO RADIO STATION IN KENYA CHINESE HOUSE CHURCH PRESSURED TO JOIN ‘OFFICIAL’ CHURCH MUSLIMS IN SOMALI TOWN VOW TO BEHEAD THOSE WHO DON’T PRAY LONDON CATHEDRALS SWAMPED WITH CHRISTMAS WORSHIPERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN NEPAL ACHIEVES HIGH HONORS This week on “World Radio” hear the amazing story behind the “Canaan […]
Memorable sayings
I can’t walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol.
Against Coercion
Sightings 12/11/06 Against Coercion — Martin E. Marty Two events this season led me to go back to the Sightings archive, to a column dated October 29, 2001 (“Listening to Lactantius”). Giving evidence of our passion always to be current, we cited Lactantius from the years 302 and 303, because what he wrote then spoke […]
Cross-cultural Mission
Sunday, December 10, 2006 Field testing Pastor Rick Warren’s peace plan Missionaries raise spirits and expectations, but can their methods cross cultures? By GWENDOLYN DRISCOLL The Orange County Register RUHUHA, Rwanda – “The first thing to understand is it’s not about me,” says Mark Broussard, a Saddleback Church missionary from Capistrano Beach. “I’m not the […]
Pathways-to-peace.com
I know this maybe a tad long, but it’s well worth seeing,very thought provoking. http://www.pathways-to-peace.com
Baptist Open Membership (more)
Nathan: That all makes us “open membership” with regard to the age or mode of baptism, but “closed membership” with regard to the necessity of baptism. I know Rowland Croucher is our foremost proponent of an “open membership” that can include the unbaptised. I disagree with him because I think it creates as many ecumenical […]
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